YourValentine wrote: The soap box, Glenfiddich, Nick Hornby, sarcasm, the good feeling that even our food is better than theirs, After Eight, fatty, Shakespeare, Stephen Fry and most of all football ====

Half of those are Scottish (if they count, they've given us Islay whisky. What more could one ask for?). While they would technically be British, no one has yet been brave enough to tell the Scots that.